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#MEAction Scotland Petition: Achievements and Agenda-setting

#MEAction Scotland submitted their petition to the Scottish Parliament in May 2018. In June, Emma Shorter, #MEAction Scotland’s volunteer leading the petition, made a powerful speech to the Petitions Committee describing the desperate need for support for people with ME in Scotland.

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Education

Medical Eduction #MEAction USA provides resources for medical professionals, students, people with ME, and the general public to increase awareness and quality of care. Check out our current state chapters ARIZONA | CALIFORNIA | COLORADO | FLORIDA | GEORGIA | MARYLAND | NEW YORK | TEXAS ABOUT #MEAction State Chapters are building a strong, national, distributed network of patient activists and allies to grow the

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Scottish Medical Education

Medical Education #MEAction Scotland’s medical education team of volunteers campaigns to ensure all healthcare professionals receive training and education that reflects the latest scientific evidence. Our aims Stop The Harm Removal of graded exercise therapy from all education and training materials High Quality Information Access for health professionals to accurate information on how to diagnose

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Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament #MEAction Scotland’s parliamentary work is focused around our petition, submitted to the Scottish Government Public Petitions Committee in May 2018, and the actions that have arisen as a result of the petition process. Our aims #MEAction Scotland’s parliamentary lobbying activities  focus on three main areas: Care Campaign for the abolition of graded exercise

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Accessible Ways for People with ME to Get Involved in Racial Justice

Accessible Ways that People with ME can get Involved in Racial Justice #MEAction has always focused on empowering and supporting our community. We know that many people with ME are wanting to show support for racial justice and it is often difficult to know how to engage from home.  Here are some accessible ways that

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State Chapters

STATE CHAPTERS #MEAction USA aims to grow our community’s impact through the expansion of our formal State Chapters. Check out our current state chapters ARIZONA | CALIFORNIA | COLORADO | FLORIDA | GEORGIA | MARYLAND | MINNESOTA | NEW YORK | TEXAS | NEW HAMPSHIRE | NORTH CAROLINA |PENNSYLVANIA   ABOUT #MEAction State Chapters are building a strong, national, distributed network of patient activists and

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Policies

MillionsMissing Policies For all #MillionsMissing registrations we will: Provide the use of #MillionsMissing branding Provide a toolkit including FAQ’s, how to host your first MM, ideas for visuals and much more (toolkit will be translated into as many languages as we can recruit volunteers) Provide options for t-shirts Provide new graphics for social, graphics for

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Three members seated and speaking at the Public Petitions Committee Meeting

#MEAction Scotland’s Petition: Progress Continues

On Thursday 19th December, 2019 the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee met to continue its consideration of  #MEAction Scotland’s petition, PE1690, which calls for a review of treatment of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in Scotland. Appearing before the committee to give evidence were Jeane Freeman, the Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport,

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Evelien’s Journey to Meet the EU Parliament

Hi everyone! First of all I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all who contributed to the success of the petition that asks for the EU to fund biomedical research on ME. So many people helped out by writing to their MEPs, translating documents, making phone calls, sharing the news and signing the

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